Anyone else find it actually sad to see Bas and Quandros together, but The Fight Professor is like your great grandpa? Bas is awesome but he’s not the same energetic show stealing ham anymore. I felt like what was missing was some of the raw intensity and fucking insanity we got with early mma.
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I didn’t think it was very good at all. It just rehashes the documentary which makes the acting seem awkward. Unnecessary.
You’d think they could find some tall 20-something football player to play Varelans. The documentary is much more effective. There’s no need to see this film if you’ve seen the doc.
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Saw it yesterday and was gonna post this exactly.
If you watched the documentary, there’s no reason to see the movie.
Edit to add the one thing I found interesting was when Pride him $3,300.
I was always under the impression Pride paid a lot more than ufc, which is why all the heavyweights were going over there.
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I think it’s great that the Rock fought to get this thing made but it just wasn’t necessary.
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Well in one way, this story would never have been heard by the general public without this movie. Now that there’s been a significant separation in terms of time, the story is novel and MMA is well known to the general public.
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Kerr in an interview said he was on salary for a period of time. They stopped it at one point and he had to take some pro wrestling gigs in Japan for extra $.
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I m inclined to think its less about rock giving a shit about mark Kerr’s story, and really just an actor trying to find a plausible role that can win him and award and change his reputation
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It will might lead some people to the doc who never watched it before.
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Probably, even though I don’t think it’s exactly setting the box office on fire.
Oh, and did Kerr really shoot up Bas Rutten with opiates at the gym like that?!
I think it’s very believable
That sucks but it’s to be expected. Mark Kerr is a name only a small percentage of the population knows.
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Shit shouldn’t have cost $50 million.
Rock - $10 mil
Blunt - $5 mil
Kraft Services - $5 mil
You see $30 million on the screen?
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No doubt. What about that movie cost that much to make?
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Narcissism and Ego?
I bet A24 isn’t smelling what The Rock is cooking right about now.
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Well I hope Kerr, Bas, Bader and Usyk at least got a little $$. I’m also reading this was the lowest opening the Rock has ever had as a lead. Pretty unfortunate actually. The movie was a sports movie, but there were no triumphant sports moments. The MMA scenes were actually pretty unexciting. The coolest thing in the movie was Bas showing how to attack on the bag right before he went out of commission. In actuality it was a movie about a struggling addict in a dysfunctional relationship who happened to be a jock. But they just brushed the surface of almost everything.
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So this was supposed to be a showcase for the rocks acting and Ryan Bader stole the show LOL
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